What is it about cold and cloudy weather that makes me want to be productive?

I’m in Oregon and am the opposite. I feel guilty if I sit inside all day the month out of the year it isn’t raining. I love the rain because I don’t feel bad about drinking tea and watching movies all day.

If you are used to taking advantage of the weather and being outdoors, it may be hard to you to accomplish much when it’s nice outside.

I lived in the tropics for 8 years and blamed that climate for my inertia. Now I live in a climate similar to North Carolina and I am blaming the cold for my inertia.

I have come to the conclusion I am just lazy!!!

I have the same “problem”. In England it rains so much and it is so cold outside that all I want to do is stay home and get some work done!

Humans evolved in fairly warm clients, so I doubt that by itself makes you unproductive. Okay, there is research that says a stifling hot climate is more likely to make you obese, though I’m not sure San Diego is what such research had in mind.

I do have a personal suspicion that the most unproductive, dysfunctional, or plain selfish people tend to be attracted to warmer climates though, but that is probably more cultural than anything. Think of the authoritarian grifters who leave the northeast for Florida. But it doesn’t mean that all people who live in such places are unproductive, dysfunctional, or plain selfish.

@bolwerk Did you mean clients or climates?

6th word

@bvdshec17: climes

I am more productive in cooler weather. In Spain, people take a siesta during the hottest part of the day. I don’t know how the Mayans managed to create a civilization in the tropics. The combination of high heat and high humidity grounds me to a halt.

I think it has more to do with ones personality and temperament in general.
While the weather and geography can and does effect our energy levels it is only one factor of many.
Your natural energy levels, personality preferences, levels of mental/emotional health and your personal factors of motivation all come into play.
I am the opposite, sunny days energize me and gloomy days I find very easy to just kick back with a blanket and watch movies all afternoon.

@bolwerk – “I do have a personal suspicion that the most unproductive, dysfunctional, or plain selfish people tend to be attracted to warmer climates though, but that is probably more cultural than anything. Think of the authoritarian grifters who leave the northeast for Florida. But it doesn’t mean that all people who live in such places are unproductive, dysfunctional, or plain selfish.”

Glad you put that disclaimer in the last sentence, otherwise that would be one of the most ridiculous and biased statements I have ever heard.

@rooeytoo: no it wouldn’t be. It would simply be misconstrued as an affront, rather than a positive statement about the grifters. I don’t know why grifters go to places with warm climates for sure, but they most certainly do.

And why would you of all people complain about bias?

Cuz I like warm weather and of all the things you may call me, a “grifter” (which urban dictionary defines as “someone who swindles you through deception or fraud.”) a grifter ain’t one of them. And I haven’t met that many cheats in my life but the obvious ones have been spread out all over, not concentrated in one country or area.

actually biased is not a word used to describe me either

@_Whitetigress – are you a swindler since you live in a warm climate, you might be predisposed to become one?

@rooeytoo I don’t understand what you are meaning or implying when you use the term “swindler.”

@_Whitetigress – it was said above that the most unproductive, dysfunctional, or plain selfish people tend to be attracted to warmer climates though, but that is probably more cultural than anything. Think of the authoritarian grifters who leave the northeast for Florida. So since you come from an area with fantastic weather, I wondered if that was your profile? I personally like warmer climes but don’t consider myself a grifter.